Enterococcus avium

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| taxon = Enterococcus avium

| authority = (ex Nowlan and Deibel 1967) Collins et al. 1984

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Enterococcus avium, a species of Enterococcus,{{cite journal |vauthors=Mohanty S, Dhawan B, Kapil A, Das BK, Pandey P, Gupta A |title=Brain abscess due to Enterococcus avium |journal=Am. J. Med. Sci. |volume=329 |issue=3 |pages=161–2 |date=March 2005 |pmid=15767825 |doi= 10.1097/00000441-200503000-00011}} is most commonly found in birds. Rarely, it is also a cause of infection in humans, and in such cases, may be vancomycin-resistant, and is referred to as VREA.[http://www.steadyhealth.com/encyclopedia/Enterococcus_avium Enterococcus avium] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716134740/http://www.steadyhealth.com/encyclopedia/Enterococcus_avium |date=2011-07-16 }} at steadyhealth.com. Accessed July 18, 2010. VREA cases in humans have been successfully treated with linezolid.Lee, Prescott P. MD; Donald A. Ferguson, Jr.; John J. Laffan. [http://journals.lww.com/infectdis/Fulltext/2004/07000/Vancomycin_Resistant_Enterococcus_avium.6.aspx Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus avium]. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice: July 2004 12:4, pp. 239-244. Accessed July 17, 2010.